Saturday, October 22, 2005

Hope Diamond, the largest blue diamond on earth, is now in Smithsonian Museum, USA. It was believed to have a spell, killing owners of which with unnatural deaths. Several people have written books about the mysterious history of the Hope Diamond, that the diamond originated from India, sold to King Louis-16 of France, then transfer hands to Mrs.McCleen of Washington Post, who finally donated to Smithsonian Museum after the death of her family. According to one Myanmar archealogist's writings, this great diamond was removed and stolen from the forehead of a Buddha image donated by King Kyansitthar of Bagan (AD 1064-1113). However no certain confirmation was made yet.

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Myanmar Pro-Blogger, freelance Graphic Designer, Photographer, Writer, History & Language Researcher, Social Activist, and Web addict. Doing projects relating with Myanmar Language and trying to build up Resource Center. Beside, the two Projects; National Biographies and Myanmar Wordnet are in progress. Currently volunteering as EC in MCPA and live and run in Yangon, Myanmar.